Critic Reviews

• Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

  Ultimately feels as generic as its title.

• Stephen Garrett, Time Out New York

  An earnest cast of talented actors can't save this well-meaning but torturously banal message movie about parental responsibility from poor writing, elementary plotting and pedestrian direction.

• Ronnie Scheib, Variety

  [A] flat, post-feminist cocktail of remixed cliches.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  Eartha Kitt stands out in this otherwise uneventful romantic comedy.

• Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  It's lightweight and reasonable likeable, but there's nothing special about this predictable rom com in which a single mother finds her son's sperm donor and then deliberates on the options that life offers her

• Prairie Miller, Critical Women

  For those not willing to buy into mandatory motherhood, there are still a few roles left for women here and there, as dragons ladies, sluts and psychos.

• Eric Lurio, Entertainment Insiders

  It's painful to watch.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  The film falters on many fronts, including truly wooden performances and a thoroughly uninteresting heroine.

• Frank Lovece, Film Journal International

  Whatever positive, life-affirming story the filmmakers meant to present gets lost amid a crowd of repugnant people.

• Kam Williams, Black Collegian

  Entertaining enough as a mildly amusing diversion, even if it might deliver a dubious message to impressionable teenage girls torn between dating a nerdy nice guy and a loser without much of a future.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  Turning its back to the feminist movement, And Then Came Love believes to the bottom of its execrable core that single mothers should go the way of the dodo bird.

• Brandon Judell, New York Theatre Wire

  Any fans of Oscar Wilde, run for the hills!

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